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Americans you've been shocked by the damage recent hurricanes have caused in the

United States.

Perhaps you'll be even more shocked to find the extraordinary conspiracy theories about

those storms on social media.

To quote one analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA,

and other public officials have faced a deluge of anti-Semitic hate and threats in the wake of Hurricane Helen,

as miss and disinformation about the government response has spread

at scale across mainstream social media platforms, in particular X or Twitter as most of us still

call it. Those lies and conspiracy theories on Twitter have had at least 160 million views at the last reported count.

One account sharing disinformation has more than 2 million followers.

Those sharing misinformation or disinformation include those who also engage in the usual

cocktail of hatreds, anti-migrant conspiracies, false claims of electoral fraud, anti-Semitism, and the so-called Great Replacement Theory, that's the

far-right conspiracy idea embraced by neo-Nazis and others, that white Christians

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